April 17, 2012
CFP for Molinari Society December 2012 Symposium on Anarchy
The Molinari Society has posted a call for papers on anarchism for the 2012 Eastern APA in Atlanta. Submissions welcome!
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April 17, 2012
BHL, Liberal-tarianism and Complicated Theories: A Reply to Doherty and Seavey
Brian Doherty has written a nice, thoughtful essay, “Can Libertarians Learn to Love Social Justice?” where he reviews some of the recent discussion about BHL and traditional-L over at Cato…
April 13, 2012
Market Democracy and Bleeding Heart Libertarianism: Trivial, Boring, and Empty
I’m a big fan of Tomasi’s new book. However, rather than promote it, I’ll attack it. Worse, for this exercise, I’ll be unfair. I’ll articulate some objections that I believe…
April 13, 2012
Can you sell your future self into slavery?
Liberty of contract is a really important right, and legal restrictions on liberty of contract are offensively paternalistic, and are sometimes racist or sexist attempts to entrench the advantage of…
April 12, 2012
Neo-Rawlsian Libertarianism: Two Principles of Justice for Bleeding Hearts
During the recent Cato Unbound discussion on the history of libertarian thought, David Friedman has asked how the “neo-Rawlsian” libertarianism that John Tomasi and Matt Zwolinski (and I) affirm is…
April 09, 2012
Modern Libertarianism — Robert Nozick Process Theorist
Today we will be discussing the contributions of Robert Nozick to modern social philosophy and political economy. It is my impression, perhaps wrong, that most philosophers and political theorists focus…